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121251 UE English in a Professional Context - Advanced / Creative Writing (2021W)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from We 01.09.2021 00:00 to We 15.09.2021 11:59
- Deregistration possible until Su 31.10.2021 23:59
Details
max. 25 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Wednesday 06.10. 08:15 - 09:45 Digital
- Wednesday 13.10. 08:15 - 09:45 Digital
- Wednesday 20.10. 08:15 - 09:45 Digital
- Wednesday 27.10. 08:15 - 09:45 Digital
- Wednesday 03.11. 08:15 - 09:45 Digital
- Wednesday 10.11. 08:15 - 09:45 Digital
- Wednesday 17.11. 08:15 - 09:45 Digital
- Wednesday 24.11. 08:15 - 09:45 Digital
- Wednesday 01.12. 08:15 - 09:45 Digital
- Wednesday 15.12. 08:15 - 09:45 Digital
- Wednesday 12.01. 08:15 - 09:45 Digital
- Wednesday 19.01. 08:15 - 09:45 Digital
- Wednesday 26.01. 08:15 - 09:45 Digital
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
Class participation, individual written assignments, regular homework assignments, and a team project.Students who do not have prior experience with creative writing are supported throughout the class in completing the assignments and overcoming blocks or perceived limitations in creative writing.Assignment 1(individual): a personal review of a literary work
Assignment 2 (individual): a piece of flash fiction
Assignment 3: Team project
Curated Portfolio of weekly reading and creative writing tasks (Imagination Journal)
Assignment 2 (individual): a piece of flash fiction
Assignment 3: Team project
Curated Portfolio of weekly reading and creative writing tasks (Imagination Journal)
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Attendance (max. 2 absences)Part 1: Individual work:
- Assignment 1: 20%
-Assignment 2: 20%
-Weekly reading and creative writing homework: 15%Part 2: Team project:
-10% proposal
-25% analysis and mediation project
-10% project presentationBoth parts must be completed and positive. The passing grade is 60%.Grading scale:
1 (sehr gut) 100-90%;
2 (gut) 89-80%;
3 (befriedigend) 79-70%;
4 (genügend) 69-60%;
5 (nicht genügend) 59-0%.Your work may be subjected to the plagiarism detection software Turnitin.
- Assignment 1: 20%
-Assignment 2: 20%
-Weekly reading and creative writing homework: 15%Part 2: Team project:
-10% proposal
-25% analysis and mediation project
-10% project presentationBoth parts must be completed and positive. The passing grade is 60%.Grading scale:
1 (sehr gut) 100-90%;
2 (gut) 89-80%;
3 (befriedigend) 79-70%;
4 (genügend) 69-60%;
5 (nicht genügend) 59-0%.Your work may be subjected to the plagiarism detection software Turnitin.
Examination topics
Continuous assessment based on what is covered in the course; details will be given in class and on Moodle.
Reading list
Information about reading provided in class and on the Moodle platform.
Association in the course directory
Studium: MA 844/2
Code/Modul: M02
Lehrinhalt: 12-0576
Code/Modul: M02
Lehrinhalt: 12-0576
Last modified: Fr 12.05.2023 00:16
This creative writing course is designed to enable MA Literature and Cultural Studies students to achieve a higher degree of nuance, fluency, and aesthetic expertise in their ability to both analyze and produce texts, with a particular focus on narrative texts. The language competence themes of the course are:
- literary techniques and storytelling design
- rhetorical devices and aesthetic/emotional engagement of the
audience
- language play
- some limited examination of visual and spoken rhetoric when relevantAims:
- to develop writing skills needed to produce a range of aesthetic, engaging, coherent, and cohesive texts embedded in a social, cultural environment.
- to increase competence in identifying and using significant lexical, grammatical, stylistic, narrative, and visual/spoken features of a text.
- to develop confidence in employing imagination, creativity, and self-expression.
- to reflect critically on self-produced work and the work of others.
- to develop skills in text mediation.Objectives: After completing the course, students can
- give a critical appraisal of works of different narrative genres appreciating subtle distinctions of style.
- recognize and use the finer subtleties of nuanced language, rhetorical effect, and stylistic language (e.g. metaphors, repetition, irony, alliteration, intertextual reference, dialogue, setting details, point of view, character development).
- critically evaluate the way in which structure, language, and rhetorical devices are exploited in a work for a particular purpose.
- give a critical appreciation of deliberate breaches of linguistic conventions in a piece of writing.
- describe in detail their own emotional response to a work outlining their reactions to certain features and explaining the significance.
- produce clear, detailed, well-structured, and developed imaginative texts in an assured, personal, natural style appropriate to the reader in mind.
- exploit storytelling and rhetorical devices appropriately to enhance the impact of a text.Methods:
Communicative language practice; project-based learning; genre analysis; production and mediation of aesthetic, narrative genres drawing upon a process and workshop approach to writing.